The honey-guide is an extraordinary bird; how is it that every member of its family has learned that all men, white or black, are fond of honey? ❋ Unknown (2004)
Has this peculiar habit of the honey-guide its origin, as the attachment of dogs, in friendship for man, or in love for the sweet pickings of the plunder left on the ground? ❋ Unknown (2004)
We remained near a small hill, called Maundo, where we began to be frequently invited by the honey-guide ❋ Unknown (2004)
Then we have the loud cry of francolins, the “pumpuru, pumpuru” of turtle-doves, and the “chiken, chiken, chik, churr, churr” of the honey-guide. ❋ Unknown (2004)
After having ascertained this, we never attended the call of the honey-guide, for we were sure it would only lead us to a hive which we had no right to touch. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Two men who accompanied our guide called out every now and then to attract the attention of the honey-guide, but none appeared. ❋ Ed (1874)
In apt illustration of Sprengel's theory of the "path-finder" or honey-guide, the insect does not alight at the centre of the flower, but upon one of the three large drooping sepals, whose veins, converging to the narrow trough above, indicate the path to the nectar. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)
The boys were certain that this was not the animal that had charged them out upon the grass plain, and proof of this was found one day when, in company with their father, the boys were following a honey-guide. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"It's the honey-guide," cried Dick, watching the twittering little thing as it flew to him and then back, trying hard to draw their attention, and to get them to follow it. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"You boys must be on the look out for the honey-guide." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
They turned their horses, and were about to ride after the honey-guide, when Pompey suddenly began baying furiously at a clump of very high ferns and bushes, and Caesar went and joined him. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
The General then solemnly took a piece of the comb and placed it in the fork of a tree for the honey-guide, assuring those who looked on, that it was necessary to propitiate the bird and pay it for its services -- a plan of which the little thing seemed highly to approve, for it flew to the comb at once, and began to feed. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
After describing the two-horned rhinoceros, hitherto unknown, the gnu -- an animal in form something between the horse and the ox -- the gazelle, the baboon, and the hippopotamus, the habits of which were previously imperfectly known, Sparrman describes a curious bird, of great service to the natives, which he calls the honey-guide. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
They were using the honey-guide as an aid, the bird came to us as they arrived, waited quietly during the half-hour they smoked and chatted, and then went on with them. [ ❋ Ed (1874)
